News Boxes - mixed media from 1997
This is one of a series of about 50 mixed media paintings I did back in 1997 of scenes of Northampton, Mass. I am working on a book about them which will have plates of all the paintings and some text I am writing about my memories of living in Northampton back then and what went into making the paintings. I am going to post one of the images from that series every week or so. These are a little different from what I am doing nowadays but I thought it would still be fun to post them once in a while.
This one is called News Boxes and I think it was done with watercolor, highlighter, marker, correction fluid, maybe some other things as well.
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I like the idea and it’s neat to see something you have done before. It is definitely eye-catching with the colors and your book sounds interesting.
The series back then were definitely a lot different from what I am trying to do now.
Yes. But that’s what makes art so fun and interesting. It’s wonderful to watch an artist explore over the years. If it’s always the same old, same old, the body of work looks stale, over time, don’t you think? Thanks for sharing the different sides of you.
I think it is interesting to see the changes and progressions. I think I mentioned somewhere in this blog that I eventually want to have my paintings look how I see them in my head – it’ll be a merge of my old spontaneous style with my more recent progression toward a better understanding of the medium and theory. Your figure paintings are great – they contain a lot of elements of how I would like my paintings to look.
Thank-you!